Mercer Family Foundation
EIN 20-1982204 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 28 grants · $15.9m
Who it funds most
1 of its 16 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Mercer Family Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 16 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2024, filing 202513169349100411
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
A year with no bar has no grants on file yet: its returns may not be loaded. It is not a year without giving.
Its returns7 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202513169349100411 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202423199349104317 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202303189349100610 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202213199349104431 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202212639349100101 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202141339349101904 | IRS batch file |
| 2017 | IRS 990-PF | 201803199349105420 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Mercer Family Foundation made 49 grants across 2017–2024, totalling $85.9m as filed.
- Grants
- 49
- Total, as filed
- $85.9m
- Years
- 2017–2024
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| DONORS TRUST | 6 | $63.8m |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | 2 | $7.8m |
| MEDIA RESERACH CENTER | 1 | $2.0m |
| RECLAIM NEW YORK INC | 1 | $1.8m |
| GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE | 1 | $1.7m |
| THE HEARTLAND INSTITUE | 1 | $800.0k |
| COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB | 1 | $750.0k |
| LAW ENFORCEMENT EDUCATION FUND | 1 | $635.8k |
| MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | 1 | $625.0k |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS | 1 | $550.0k |
| OISM | 1 | $500.0k |
| SUSAN B ANTHONY LIST INC ED FD | 1 | $500.0k |
| THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY | 1 | $500.0k |
| MANHATTAN INST FOR POLICY RESEARCH | 1 | $450.0k |
| MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES RESERACH INST | 1 | $400.0k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 37 | $15.2m |
| 2020 | 3 | $26.0m |
| 2021 | 5 | $6.3m |
| 2022 | 2 | $31.1m |
| 2023 | 1 | $3.5m |
| 2024 | 1 | $3.8m |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-201982204. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified